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ArticleMedical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention

DLLNet: An Attention-Based Deep Learning Method for Dental Landmark Localization on High-Resolution 3D Digital Dental Models.

Yankun Lang, Hannah H Deng, Deqiang Xiao, Chunfeng Lian, Tianshu Kuang, Jaime Gateno, Pew-Thian Yap, James J Xia

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Yankun LangDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Hannah H DengDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Deqiang XiaoDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Chunfeng LianDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Tianshu KuangDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Jaime GatenoDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Pew-Thian YapDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
James J XiaDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.

Funding

Outcome-Driven Approach to Minimize the Risks of Facial Distortion Following CMF SurgeryR01DE021863 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2013 to 2025
$5.1M
A Novel Imaging Informatics Platform for Craniomaxillofacial SurgeryR01DE022676 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2011 to 2020
$4.0M
Learning-Based Approach for Personalized Craniomaxillofacial Surgical PlanningR01DE027251 · NIDCR · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GATENO, JAIME · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE021863NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE022676NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE027251
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dental landmark localization is a fundamental step to analyzing dental models in the planning of orthodontic or orthognathic surgery. However, current clinical practices require clinicians to manually digitize more than 60 landmarks on 3D dental models. Automatic methods to detect landmarks can release clinicians from the tedious labor of manual annotation and improve localization accuracy. Most existing landmark detection methods fail to capture local geometric contexts, causing large errors and misdetections. We propose an end-to-end learning framework to automatically localize 68 landmarks on high-resolution dental surfaces. Our network hierarchically extracts multi-scale local contextual features along two paths: a landmark localization path and a landmark area-of-interest segmentation path. Higher-level features are learned by combining local-to-global features from the two paths by feature fusion to predict the landmark heatmap and the landmark area segmentation map. An attention mechanism is then applied to the two maps to refine the landmark position. We evaluated our framework on a real-patient dataset consisting of 77 high-resolution dental surfaces. Our approach achieves an average localization error of 0.42 mm, significantly outperforming related start-of-the-art methods.

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3D dental surfaceGeometric deep learningLandmark localization

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PMID34927177
PMCPMC8675275

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